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<font size="4"><b>Ghislain Thibault</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><i>History of Science, Harvard</i></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b>Communicating Electricity: A Media Archaeology of Wireless Power </b></span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Transmission </span></font></b></div>
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<font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you <span>RSVP</span>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">Please <span>RSVP</span> to </font><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span><span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span><span><span>sts</span></span></span></a></span></span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); ">@hks.harvard.edu</a> </font><font color="#000000">by 5pm Thursday, March 31st.</font></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Abstract:</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">In 2007, a team of MIT physicists succeeded in powering a light bulb without wire over a </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">distance of seven feet. Their innovation – coined “WiTricity”– was described by Technological </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Review as one of the ten technologies most likely to change the way we live. In 2010, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">first wirelessly powered plasma TV was exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show. As our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">everyday technological devices are on the verge of becoming utterly wireless, my research </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">explores how models of electricity distribution and information transmission have been shaping </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">one another in the late 19th century onwards and how wireless power transfer challenges </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">our relation to space, mobility and transmission. Building on the emerging research field of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">media archaeology, I argue that these cross-overs between energy and information have been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">productive forces in shaping the contemporary media ecology and that “wirelessness” reveals </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">common features of both paradigms. My analysis focuses on two case studies: the Tesla </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">experiments (1895-1905) and the MIT experiments (2000-2011).</span></div>
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<br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Biography</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">: </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Ghislain Thibault is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of the History of Science </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">at Harvard University. He was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Communication </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), beginning July 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Communication Studies from the University of Montreal where he was a member of the Radical </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Empiricism Laboratory. From 2009-2010, he was the editor of <i>COMMposite</i>, an electronic </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">journal for young scholars in communication studies. His research and teaching interests include </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">media archaeology, media theory and the history of technology. His work was published </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">in<i> Intermedialities: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies</i> and in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><i>Canadian Journal of Communication</i>.</span></div>
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<font color="#000000">A complete list of <span><span><span><span><span>STS</span></span></span> </span></span><span><span><span><span><span>Circle</span></span></span> </span></span>at Harvard events can be found on our website:</font></div>
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<div>Samuel A. Evans, DPhil</div><div>Postdoctoral Fellow </div><div>& Chair of the STS Circle</div><div>Harvard University</div><div><br></div><div>Program on Science, Technology, & Society</div><div>Kennedy School of Government</div>
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